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material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are
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MICROFILM ONLY. Return John Meigs was the son of Major John Meigs of Connecticut and
Elizabeth (Henshaw) Meigs. He should not be confused with Return J. Meigs (1740-1823),
Revolutionary officer and Indian agent; with Return J. Meigs (1764-1824), United States
senator and governor of Ohio; or with Return J. Miegs (1801-1891), Tennessee lawyer
and state librarian. Journal of Return John Meigs, 5 June-12 October 1835, kept while
he was secretary to the commissioners authorized to negotiate with the Eastern Cherokees
in north Georgia and Tennessee. The journal records Meigs's itinerary through western
North Carolina, north Georgia, and Tennessee, and indicates places where he lodged,
meals eaten, church attendence, scenery, persons met, and business activities. The
commissioners included J. F. Schermerhorn and William Carroll. They are mentioned
in the journal, along with Elbert Herring and Cherokee chiefs John Ridge and John
Ross. In addition to the journal entries, the volume includes Meigs's travel accounts
and copies of his own correspondence and that of others.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants,
as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Return John Meigs Journal, #2972, Southern Historical
Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of Originals

Negative microfilm made in 1953 from a typed transcription of an original item in
private hands. Positive copy added in 1971.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical
Collection.

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State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.).
Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to
identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent
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private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable
person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no
responsibility.

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Return John Meigs was the son of Major John Meigs of Connecticut and Elizabeth (Henshaw)
Meigs. He should not be confused with Return J. Meigs (1740-1823), Revolutionary officer
and Indian agent; with Return J. Meigs (1764-1824), United States senator and governor
of Ohio; or with Return J. Miegs (1801-1891), Tennessee lawyer and state librarian.

MICROFILM ONLY. Journal of Return John Meigs, 5 June-12 October 1835, kept while he
was secretary to the commissioners authorized to negotiate with the Eastern Cherokees
in north Georgia and Tennessee. The journal records Meigs's itinerary through western
North Carolina, north Georgia, and Tennessee, and indicates places where he lodged,
meals eaten, church attendence, scenery, persons met, and business activities. The
commissioners included J. F. Schermerhorn and William Carroll. They are mentioned
in the journal, along with Elbert Herring and Cherokee chiefs John Ridge and John
Ross. In addition to the journal entries, the volume includes Meigs's travel accounts
and copies of his own correspondence and that of others.